System Monitoring and Diagnostics
Azure Synapse Data Explorer is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that brings together several components for an end-to-end analytics experience. As with any PaaS, you don’t need to manage any of the underlying infrastructure of the service, such as the server operating system, storage, networking, or any hardware, which is different from running a service on your own premises, which requires you to manage the full stack of the service. Figure 10.1 illustrates the common layers in each service hosting model, and how much you need to worry about management in each of them.
Figure 10.1 – Service management responsibilities per service hosting model
As you can see, for PaaS solutions, we’ll typically only worry about managing the actual data and the applications that are used to connect to the platform. In this chapter, you’ll look at ways to monitor your environment to manage your data, including...